Overview

• Cornyn’s campaign unveiled a website and hotline urging anonymous tips about Paxton, paired with a digital ad telling Texans to submit information and stay anonymous.
• The site’s form lists categories for reports including adultery, financial fraud, abuse of power, pay for play, and other.
• A Cornyn memo and advisers say the effort underscores that character matters, as national GOP groups like the NRSC and Senate Leadership Fund line up behind the incumbent.
• Paxton rejected the attacks in a Fox Business interview, accusing Cornyn of lying, while President Donald Trump has kept neutral and said he likes both candidates.
• Recent polling shows a tighter contest after earlier Paxton leads, including an Emerson survey that had Cornyn up by 1 point, as outside spending favoring Cornyn surged in August and reports spotlighted Paxton’s divorce filing and questions about mortgage representations.